Legal scales tip in NextWave's favor: NextWave has battled it out with the FCC in the courts for years. Finally, the FCC has given NextWave some breathing room by lifting a legal cloud that challenged its compliance with build-out requirements. (Service Providers).(Brief Article)

Wireless Week, March, 2003 by Rockwell, Mark

WASHINGTON--As expected, after years of legal imbroglio the FCC is cutting NextWave Telecom some slack in building out its wireless networks, granting it several more months in the coming year to install working networks in its markets across the country.

The commission early this month said it would give the company, which has yet to launch commercial service, another 703 days from its original Jan. 3, 2002, deadline to meet build-out requirements needed to keep its 63 30-MHz C-block licenses. Once the networks are built out to the FCC's specifications, NextWave would be able to sell them, according to the FCC's order. Bottom line, the new deadline gives NextWave until around October of this year to complete the installations.

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